http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/american-immigration Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:24:51 -0400 Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:24:51 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/188/conceptions-of-the-american-dream By Olivia A. Murphy - Since its coinage in 1931, the concept of “the American Dream” has lured tens of millions of immigrants from all corners of the planet to the United States with promises of prosperity and happiness far beyond anything attainable in their native countries. If you were to ask each one what “American Dream” meant to them, the vast array of answers would be akin to the assortment of individual stories themselves. However, whether they dream of material affluence, career success, or just overall happiness and prosperity, every story is faced with similar challenges in an altogether... Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:55 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/188/conceptions-of-the-american-dream http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/179/exploring-the-american-immigrant-experience-through-literature By Brian Richards - In “Amor de lejos: Latino (Im)migration Literatures,” B.V. Olguin writes, “Latino/a (im)migration narratives…often illustrate the traumatic aspects of displacement by focusing in part on how immigration, migration, exile, and colonization place people in a state of national limbo” (333). Similarly, in “The New Immigration and the Literature of Asian America,” Hye Suh and Robert Ji-Song Ku write, “Asian American literature bears the traces of global capitalism, technology, migration from south to north, new possibilities for national identity in... Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:48 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/179/exploring-the-american-immigrant-experience-through-literature http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/176/immigration-and-what-it-means-to-be-an-american By Brian Richards - On the eve of the 19th century, in 1781, French-American immigrant Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur wrote a letter, the third in his famed Letters from an American Farmer, entitled “What Is An American?” His answer, as open for interpretation as it might be, was best been articulated in his fourth paragraph: “The American,” he writes, “is a new man, who acts upon new principles; he must therefore entertain new ideas, and form new opinions” (2). Two centuries later, however, American journalist James Fallows wrote an article entitled “Immigration: How It&rsquo... Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:54 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/176/immigration-and-what-it-means-to-be-an-american http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/166/the-american-immigrant-a-roach-in-the-glue--examining-the-work-of-hemon-and-kambanda By Brian Richards - At the conclusion of her essay, “My New World Journey,” Nola Kambanda writes that “Sometimes I am not sure whether home is behind me or in front of me…I might just be attaching [this longing] to those things that are familiar to me…it might not be a place at all…home might be family…It might be the people who make me feel” (155). However, at the conclusion of his short story, “Blind Jozef Pronek,” Aleksandar Hemon writes of his protagonist’s perception of home, and hardly any of his description fits finely into Kambanda&rsquo... Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:07 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/166/the-american-immigrant-a-roach-in-the-glue--examining-the-work-of-hemon-and-kambanda